The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-06-01
TIMELY DRESS. NOTES.
Valuable Hints and Suggestions for AIMS,
a tour Dress Makers.

TIMELY DRESS NOTES.
Valuable Hints and Suggestions for ANA.
teur Dress Makers.
Amateur dress-makers are advised
that three breadths Of silk are again
used for the entire back of the skirt,
drapery and lower skirt. being thus
combined. These breadths are cut
halfia yard longer than the foundation
skirt, are set in many Tapped plaits
meeting in the middle at the top, and
are then turned over in two pointed
ends on the tournure. The greatest
latitude is allowed in arranging such
,draperies at the top, each modiste
varying them to suit her fancy, or ac-
cording to her cloth. The burnoose
folds dropping down from the belt,
though no longer new, are still popu-
lar The jabot back drapery, which
was formerly made with two stiff1y
folded narrow jabots-one down each
side-is now more gracefully arranged
in a single large jabot of very easy soft
folds down the middle of the back,
dropping from the belt to the floor.
The apron draperies that prove to be
most popular as the season advances
are those plated to the belt and thus
having their fullness falling in length
wise folds rather than in the crosswise
wrinkles made by many plaits on each
side. To illustrate this, take q breadth
of cashmere, and letting one corner
form the foot, plait the topic the belt
in six plaits (three each side, meeting
in the middle). then catch up slightly
the middle plat on each side to break
up its stiffness A hem or facing three
or four inches wide edges the apron,
and may be either stitched by machine
or done in blind stitches, no matter
how fine the wool fabric may be; in
deed, it is quite feature this season to
put row after row of machine stitching
on summer camel s-hair and cashmere
dresses in the way formerly confined to
tailor gowns of heavy cloth.
Coat sleeves are no longer made
very tight over the arm, but are easy
and loose for all materials, especially
for wool dresses. They have narrow
velvet cuffs turned back on them and
opened on the inside seam, not outside,
as was lately the fashion; a small bow
of ribbon is set at the end of this open
ing, and white picot-edged ribbon is
.basted inside. Sometimes a colored
ribbon bow is omitted, and the inner
white ribbon comes outside in bow.
| Another feature on these loose coat
sleeves is that of letting the material Of
the sleeves, whether silk or wool. drop
over the cuff in an easy fold, making
the cuff appear to be an under-sleeve.
The full bishops sleeves gathered al
top and bottom, and the mutton-lee
sleeves, are seen on many new gowns,
but ladies Of conservative tastes wea,
the easy coat sleeves just described. a
A new trimming is made Of six o.
seven rows Of extremely narrow rib
bon-called baby ribbon--held togeth'
er by links Of gilt thread and edged
with loops of this feather. edged ribbon
which is only q fourth of an inch wide
This is especially effective when o
white and gold-the ribbons of whit,
satin and the links of gilt thread.
While wool dresses for matinees o.
for afternoon wear have a garniture o
twilled silk arranged as a soft vest ant
as drapery in sash form, which may b
all yellow of aesthetic tone, or may b
in checks or blocks or stripes of red
blue and yellow, or striped in Pompa
dour colors, or in those of Roman
scarfs. The white and gold dresses
have sometimes classic drapery point
ed on the sides like Greek peplum
arranged with all the plaits at top mex
the belt instead of across, and fallin!
also in a point in front. A pretty whit
delaine dress has the skirt pressed il
fine plaits from top to bottom. and
then draped with a Roman sash twenty
four inches wide, arranged to fall in
point low on the left side, then caugh
up to the hips and dropping in tn
back in two loops with two ends
Harper's Bazaar.
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